Surviving
in the battlezone... On February 28, parts of northcentral Illinois
were hit by tornadoes from a powerful late winter storm. The hardest hit
was in the area of Naplate and Ottawa, Illinois, where the strongest of
the tornadoes hit and stayed on the ground the longest...: photo by Bill, 2 April 2017

Surviving
in the battlezone... On February 28, parts of northcentral Illinois
were hit by tornadoes from a powerful late winter storm. The hardest hit
was in the area of Naplate and Ottawa, Illinois, where the strongest of
the tornadoes hit and stayed on the ground the longest...: photo by Bill, 2 April 2017

Surviving
in the battlezone... On February 28, parts of northcentral Illinois
were hit by tornadoes from a powerful late winter storm. The hardest hit
was in the area of Naplate and Ottawa, Illinois, where the strongest of
the tornadoes hit and stayed on the ground the longest...: photo by Bill, 2 April 2017

Magpie Creek. Viewing north from the culvert at Roseville Road near McClellan Park in Sacramenta, CA.: photo by Rick Ele, 28 March 2017

Magpie Creek. Viewing north from the culvert at Roseville Road near McClellan Park in Sacramenta, CA.: photo by Rick Ele, 28 March 2017

Magpie Creek. Viewing north from the culvert at Roseville Road near McClellan Park in Sacramenta, CA.: photo by Rick Ele, 28 March 2017

if I had my way I'd sit and watch the gray and poundy waves all day

2017-76. Sonoma County, CA: photo by biosfear, February 2017

Joanne Kyger: Sunday in the Storm Era

"these are extraordinary times"

so we can do what we want ha ha

the sky darkens

stitching the white pillow cover

If I had my way I'd sit and watch

the gray and poundy waves all day...

The candle lights for Cypress

must be down at the Channel now

where the tide rushes out

from the lagoon and keeps on going out

way out... remember?

now the evening sky

looks pretty clear

that

was a history

just happened

December 2, 2001

Joanne Kyger (1934-2017): Sunday in the Storm Era, from The Distressed Look (2004)

2017-78. Redwood National Park, CA: photo by biosfear, 2 April 2017

a history

BWE -1759- MOSELDIJK - 2 copie: photo by egoteabs, 6 March 2017

BWE -1759- MOSELDIJK - 2 copie: photo by egoteabs, 6 March 2017

BWE -1759- MOSELDIJK - 2 copie: photo by egoteabs, 6 March 2017

Dortmund. Alone.: photo by heleconia, 22 March 2017

Dortmund. Alone.: photo by heleconia, 22 March 2017

Dortmund. Alone.: photo by heleconia, 22 March 2017

Potsdam VI 2017: photo by derkleinekönig, 31 January 2017

Potsdam VI 2017: photo by derkleinekönig, 31 January 2017

Potsdam VI 2017: photo by derkleinekönig, 31 January 2017

Jesus and Dinosaurs: photo by Gary Martin, 21 March 2017

Jesus and Dinosaurs: photo by Gary Martin, 21 March 2017

Jesus and Dinosaurs: photo by Gary Martin, 21 March 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Gary Martin, 4 April 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Gary Martin, 4 April 2017

[Untitled]: photo by Gary Martin, 4 April 2017

1472: photo by Martín Colomé, 31 March 2017

1472: photo by Martín Colomé, 31 March 2017

1472: photo by Martín Colomé, 31 March 2017

1st there were books

Incense
sticks, and fires to light them, were readily available, and there were
many people in the temple paying homage to Buddha: photo by Gabriel Boisvert, 30 March 2017

Incense
sticks, and fires to light them, were readily available, and there were
many people in the temple paying homage to Buddha: photo by Gabriel Boisvert, 30 March 2017

1st there were booksThen there were fire sticks(in a way of speaking)

No booksOnly smoke and

computer

djinn-aerated(not my way) mirror images

Incense
sticks, and fires to light them, were readily available, and there were
many people in the temple paying homage to Buddha: photo by Gabriel Boisvert, 30 March 2017

Stephen Ratcliffe: A week of Temporality

SUNDAY, APRIL 9, 2017

4.9

light coming into blue whiteness
of sky above ridge

birds chirping on branches in
lower left foreground

close to those in spirit, “know
how much I thought”

no need of numbers, think of man who
as yet, can go

I made up my mind that the people
were the story in

“to feel the agony of the corpses
pressing forward”

pale orange of sky above shadowed
shoulder of ridge

white line of wave breaking across
mouth of channel

Saturday, April 8, 2017

4.8

reddish edge of cloud above
shadowed plane of ridge

blue jay landing on black pine
branch in foreground

evidence of every aspect, appears
in translation by

repetition, and so forth,
complexity of figure such

as to which no thought whatever
has here been given

each thing present from time to
time in its own way

pink red edges of clouds above
still shadowed ridge

white line of wave breaking across
mouth of channel

4.7

man waking from dream in unmade
yellow and blue bed

dropping into enormous breaking
wave getting bombed

is possible, but does not mean that might have been

body no matter what form, modified by motion, ratio

man returned from a surgical strike on desert point

roping 60-second barrel running down length of reef

grey rain cloud against invisible
shoulder of ridge

white lines of waves breaking into
windblown channel

Thursday, April 6, 2017

4.6

grey rain cloud above shadowed
green plane of ridge

drops falling on brick red plane
in left foreground

these in not yet needing,
different from had enough

ways of painting, through motion
of brush, that had

distances in time and space
happening here in which

everything that is present folding
into single fold

grey rain cloud above still
shadowed green of ridge

shadowed white line of wave
breaking across channel

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

4.5

blue blackness of clouds above still
shadowed ridge

first birds chirping from field in
right foreground

being present as present, position
of other present

can be, also possibility,
“pretext” as we have seen

to hold it to itself for the
possibility of another

or forcing it again and again to
the wall of itself

grey line of cloud above shadowed
shoulder of ridge

shadowed white line of wave
breaking across channel

Tuesday, April 4, 2017

4.4

light in window opposite unmade yellow and blue bed

motionless black branches above
fence in foreground

two other views of second ground,
“you see subject”

things dissolve into but, in those
there, thinks of

not in any sense ever to be
drawing attention to it

beyond its being so, as instance
of something which

diagonal grey line of cloud above
shoulder of ridge

shadowed white line of wave
breaking across channel

Monday, April 3, 2017

4.3

light coming into blue blackness
of sky above ridge

planet next to black pine branch
in left foreground

implication of meaning in working
method, selection

as it folds over so as to view,
figure from, motion

freedom from any internal
reference or turning back

no matter what the rhythmic
argument may seem to be

pink cloud in pale blue sky above
shoulder of ridge

shadowed white line of wave breaking
across channel

Stephen Ratcliffe: from Temporality, 3 April - 9 April 2017

Red-breasted Merganser male. The Red-breasted merganser likes brackish coastal water, so it is seen far less often inland. It is more cresty than the Common Merganser, and has color in the breast.Taken at Bolinas Lagoon, where the mergansers like to forage in the deeper channels along with the cormorants while the egrets wait along the sides of the channels for the fish trying to escape.: photo by Len Blumin, 12 April 2005